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Singer turned salafist Fadel Shaker, an affiliate of detained extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir, has requested the security apparatuses to facilitate his travel to Qatar, As Safir daily reported on Monday. “Repentant singer and fugitive Fadel Shaker has asked the security agencies (in Lebanon) to facilitate […]

Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Ali Fayyad blamed al-Mustaqbal Movement for impeding an agreement on a new electoral law, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday. The Hizbullah MP said: “Neither the AMAL movement nor the Free Patriotic Movement or Hizbullah are responsible […]

Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb announced Monday that a “solution” has been reached for the country’s renewed waste management and collection crisis, following a meeting with two Free Patriotic Movement officials. “We have managed to reach a solution through negotiations,” said Shehayyeb at a joint press […]

Washington and Moscow failed Monday to agree on a deal to stem Syria’s violence during talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in China. While speaking of “productive” talks and “some alignment” on Syria, the two powers failed to produce an […]

Bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens in mainly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, a day after IS lost the last stretch of the Syria-Turkey border under its control. The deadliest in the wave of blasts […]

Tens of thousands took to Brazilian streets Sunday to support sacked leader Dilma Rousseff and protest the new government of Michel Temer, who has taken power and downplayed the protests. Demonstration organizers — who have rejected Temer’s ascendancy as a “coup” — said some 100,000 […]

NNA – Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rahi hoped that the “divine light guides political parties to elect a president and puts an end to corruption.” The Maronite prelate spoke Saturday from Diman, chairing the third annual Mass of the “Garden of the Patriarchs” in the presence […]

ROME—A vial of blood, a splinter of wood from a confessional and two dubious medical miracles are the ingredients making Mother Teresa a saint not just figuratively but literally, and this Sunday in Rome she will be canonized with great fanfare. More than 100,000 tickets […]

Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute. Choosing “to not see […]